Gilberto Corona is a graphic design educator at Texas Tech University. He received his BFA in Design for Graphic Communication from the Universidad de Guadalajara in 2012 and an MFA in Design & Visual Communications (MxD) at the University of Florida in 2022. Gilberto has designed for a variety of firms and nonprofits, including Aqua Comunicacion, MDM Modama International Exhibition of Footwear, Thomson Reuters, TATA Consultancy Services, and CENSIDA in Mexico. Shaped by his life experiences, his research and practice interest focuses on design for social impact, acknowledging frameworks that support horizontality, mindsets around decolonization, and theories from the global south that he uses to approach LGBTQA+ issues, immigration, and their intersections.